Grok Pricing 2026: $10 to $300, and the Tiers Listed Twice

TL;DR: Grok costs $10.00 for SuperGrok Lite, $30.00 for SuperGrok, $100.00 for SuperGrok Plus and $300.00 for SuperGrok Heavy, per xAI's own App Store catalog on 18 August 2026, and xAI's website blocks automated price checks. The number that decides most Grok purchases is not any of those, it is what SuperGrok plus a second assistant costs together, against $14.99 for one subscription that already includes Grok.

Grok costs between $10.00 and $300.00 a month depending on tier, and Perspective AI reaches Grok for $14.99/mo inside one subscription that includes Grok rather than replacing it, which lands below the $30.00 SuperGrok tier most subscribers buy and consolidates a second assistant bill into the same line. Every figure on this page came off xAI's own in-app purchase catalog on 18 August 2026, because x.ai itself refused an automated read that day. The catalog turned up something worth reporting carefully: three of the four tier names are listed twice, at prices exactly ten times apart. This page belongs to the pricing hub, and the wider market table sits in the master price index.

How much does Grok cost in 2026?

Grok costs $10.00 per month for SuperGrok Lite, $30.00 for SuperGrok, $100.00 for SuperGrok Plus and $300.00 for SuperGrok Heavy. Grok also answers questions at $0 under an unpublished cap.

• Free Grok: question answering inside X and grok.com under a rolling cap xAI does not publish to automated visitors, $0/mo.
• SuperGrok Lite: the entry paid tier, $10.00/mo.
• SuperGrok: the mainstream tier and the one most price tables quote, $30.00/mo.
• SuperGrok Plus: the step above mainstream, $100.00/mo.
• SuperGrok Heavy: the top consumer tier, $300.00/mo.
• Extra Usage Credits: top-up packs at $5.00 and $20.00, sold on top of any tier.

Source: xAI's in-app purchase catalog on the Grok App Store listing, read 18 August 2026. The API rate card lives on x.ai and could not be verified today, so it is omitted here rather than imported from memory.

Three Grok tiers are listed twice, at exactly ten times the price

xAI's catalog contains ten purchase items for four tier names, and three of those names carry two prices each at a precise 10x ratio.

A 10x ratio is the standard shape of a monthly price sitting beside an annual one at two months free, and that is the ordinary explanation. It is not a verified one, because xAI publishes the billing period only on pages that refuse automated inspection. So this page reports the ratio as measured and stops there.

The practical warning matters more than the cause. A price monitor reading that catalog on two consecutive days can pick up $100.00 for SuperGrok Plus one day and $1,000.00 the next, purely from the order the items are returned in, and report a ten-fold price rise that never happened. Any Grok price you see quoted somewhere without a billing period attached is a number pulled out of a list that contains two of them.

SuperGrok Heavy at $300.00 tops the consumer AI price ladder

SuperGrok Heavy costs $300.00 a month, the highest consumer plan price among the five vendors checked on 18 August 2026. Three comparisons place it: Heavy is $100.00 above ChatGPT Pro 20x at $200.00, $100.01 above Google AI Ultra 20x at $199.99, and $50.01 above the $249.99 that Anthropic's iOS listing showed for Claude Max 20x on the same date.

xAI runs the widest paid ladder in the market as a result. The distance from SuperGrok Lite at $10.00 to Heavy at $300.00 is a 30x spread inside one vendor, against roughly 10x at OpenAI and 40x at Google once its $4.99 tier is counted. A ladder that wide signals a vendor that has not settled on who its paying customer is, and it is the reason Grok's price is quoted inconsistently across the web: five different numbers are all correct.

What xAI would not tell an automated visitor, including the free tier's cap

Four xAI-controlled URLs returned HTTP 403 on 18 August 2026: x.ai/grok, x.ai/api, grok.com and help.x.com. No free-tier message limit, no API rate card and no X Premium bundling detail could be read from any of them.

That leaves a real gap, and naming it is more useful than filling it. Grok's free tier exists and answers questions at $0. Its cap has moved more than once, which is exactly why an unverified figure is worse than none: a stale limit reported as current is the single most common error in AI pricing coverage. Anyone who needs the current cap should open grok.com in a browser and read it there, which takes less time than trusting a table. Cross-vendor limits that were verifiable are collected in the AI usage limits comparison.

SuperGrok at $30, or Grok Plus Every Other Lab in One Subscription at $14.99

Here is the arithmetic, once. SuperGrok at $30.00/mo plus one standard assistant plan at roughly $20.00/mo comes to $50.00/mo, or $600.00 a year, for two model families. Perspective AI is $14.99/mo, includes Grok, and adds GPT, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek with switching inside a single conversation. The gap against that pair is $35.01/mo.

SuperGrok alone is the more common comparison and it is closer. $30.00 against $14.99 is a $15.01 monthly difference between one laboratory and the whole catalog, which is the consolidation argument compressed into two numbers. Buy SuperGrok directly when Grok's real-time social data is the specific capability you are paying for and nothing else does that job. Every other case is a case for reaching Grok through a subscription that also reaches everything else, and the plan by plan price comparison lays out how the rest of the field prices the same decision. The head-to-heads sit at ChatGPT against Grok and Grok against Claude.

What $300.00 a month actually buys at xAI

SuperGrok Heavy buys throughput from one laboratory, and the $285.01 that separates it from a $14.99 multi-model subscription buys breadth across many. Both are legitimate purchases and they answer different questions. Heavy makes sense when a single model's capacity is the constraint on paid work, when that model is specifically Grok, and when $3,600 a year is smaller than the output it unlocks.

Three signs point the other way. Paying $300.00 while also holding another assistant subscription means the constraint was never capacity. Buying Heavy to avoid refusals means the constraint is model choice, which more of the same model does not fix. Buying Heavy without first testing SuperGrok at $30.00 for a month means buying a ceiling before finding the floor. The $10.00 Lite tier exists precisely so that discovery costs $10.00 instead of $300.00.

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